[android-beginners] Re: Using Android icon artwork as basis of icon for a paid app - acceptable?

Thank you very much Mark! That will definitely help me to get up to
speed on fair use of the Android Robot icon. I did a few searches but
I guess I just wasn't thinking of the right terminology (branding).
This helps so much! Thanks again :)

On Jul 30, 4:59 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> jhoffman wrote:
> > Hello everyone, sorry if this is a silly question, but I want to stay
> > out of legal trouble with my first venture into selling software!
>
> > I have seen that a number of apps on the market modify the original
> > little green android guy icon (give him hats, clothes, change his
> > color, etc). I think it is a fun theme for applications, and really
> > enhances the feel of Android in general for me as a user. Is it
> > acceptable use of the original artwork to modify it in this manner if
> > the application is going to be a paid app?
>
> > I'll most likely be asking someone else to do my art anyway as I'm not
> > much of an artist myself, but I have an idea for a modified Android
> > guy that I'd like to use as an icon, and I wanted to make sure that
> > was okay. Thanks a lot!
>
> http://www.android.com/branding.html
>
> "When using the Android Robot or any modification of it, proper
> attribution is required under the terms of the Creative Commons
> Attribution license."
>
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>
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